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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TruthAndRights: [QB] [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/538670_10150861363633558_1837404532_n.jpg[/IMG] Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.” - Mahogany (1975 [IMG]https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/148917_10150858782788558_1165037049_n.jpg[/IMG] Wilson Pickett and Jimi Hendrix, 1966 [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/540429_10150854758208558_1902336525_n.jpg[/IMG] Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, New York, 1948 [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/292100_10150851186383558_417547668_n.jpg[/IMG] Unthank, Dr. DeNorval (1899-1977) Dr. DeNorval Unthank, a civil rights advocate and a highly respected leader in the black community of Portland, Oregon, arrived in the city after completing medical school at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Unthank was recruited to Portland in 1929 because the city needed a black doctor. He was quickly tested as his white neighbors greeted his first attempt to move into a previously all white residential area with broken windows, threatening phone calls, and general harassment. Unthank had to move his family four times before finding a place to settle down peacefully. Throughout the 1930s, Dr. Unthank was Portland’s only black medical practitioner. He was a dedicated doctor and a friend to any minority group in the city as well. Black families could not receive treatment in hospitals – house calls were necessary, and Dr. Unthank made himself available day and night. He served African Americans, Asians and many whites as well. Dr. Unthank was politically active and was outspoken in his support of civil rights and equal opportunity. In 1940, Dr. Unthank was elected head of the Advisory Council, an organization that hoped to pressure local leaders into providing equal access to economic opportunities related to WWII jobs. The Council documented incidents of discrimination in the workplace around Portland despite raised expectations following President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 8802. On Dec. 5, 1941, the Council organized a mass meeting to promote an official letter of protest to federal authorities about Portland’s situation. During and after World War II, Dr. Unthank worked tirelessly to build his medical practice and promote civil rights. He became the first black member of Portland’s City Club in 1943. He encouraged the club to publish a significant 1945 study called “The Negro in Portland,” which opened the eyes of many citizens to ongoing discriminatory practices. Dr. Unthank also served as president of the local chapter of the NAACP, and was a cofounder of the Portland Urban League. He played a strong role in the passing of Oregon’s 1953 Civil Rights Bill, which among many issues, overturned a law banning interracial marriages in the state. In 1958, the Oregon Medical Society named him Doctor of the Year. In recognition of his service to civil rights, grateful citizens pressed the city to dedicate DeNorval Unthank Park in North Portland in his honor in 1969. Dr. Unthank once said, “A Negro may have a few more doors closed to him and he may find them a little harder to open, but he can open them. He must keep trying.” Sources: Rudy Pearson, “African Americans in Portland, Oregon, 1940-1950: Work and Living Conditions – A Social History,” (Ph.D.dissertation, Washington State University, 1996); Oregon Biographies [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/543310_10150850154993558_74721457_n.jpg[/IMG] Richard Wright, photographed in his New York study by Gordon Parks, May 1943 Wright, a Natchez, Mississippi native, became a French citizen in 1947. He told a friend that “any black man remaining in the United States after the age of thirty-five was bound to kill, be killed, or go insane.” Wright died in Paris on November 28, 1960 [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/36530_10150848225313558_1625926050_n.jpg[/IMG] Young, Roger Arliner (1889-1964) Image Ownership: Public Domain Roger Arliner Young, born in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania in 1889, was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in zoology and to conduct research at the prestigious Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Young conducted research on the anatomy of paramecium and the effects of radiation on sea urchin eggs. Young enrolled at Howard University at the age of twenty-seven, intending to major in music. After struggling through a biology course with African American biologist, Ernest Everett Just, she changed her major to that subject, earning a B.S. in 1923. Just hired her as an assistant professor at Howard while she attended graduate school. The next year, Young enrolled at the University of Chicago part-time and published her first article on paramecium which achieved international recognition. She received her M.S in Zoology in 1926 and was elected to the honor society Sigma Xi. Between 1927 and 1936 Young and Just worked together at Howard University and during the summers they conducted research at Woods Hole. While Just was in Europe, Young served as the substitute chair for Howard’s biology department. Upon his return to Howard in 1929, Young entered the Ph.D. program in biology at the University of Chicago. However, the pressures of her duties at Howard and her responsibilities to care for her invalid mother were counterproductive to her success. She failed the qualifying exam and returned to Howard where rumors of a romance with Just led to her dismissal in 1936. Young recovered from this low point to publish four articles between 1935 and 1938. After leaving Howard, Young maintained ties with scientists she met at Woods Hole. One, V.L. Heilbrunn, recruited her to the University of Pennsylvania were she completed her Ph.D. in 1940. Between 1940 and 1953 she taught at North Carolina College and Shaw University, where she served as the Biology Department Chair. Young, affected by her mother’s death in 1953 and still under intense pressure as a solitary black female scientist, had difficulty holding a job. She worked at various black colleges until the late 1950s when she voluntarily committed herself to the Mississippi State Mental Asylum. After her release in 1962, Young lectured at Southern University until she died in 1964. Sources: Wini Warren, “Roger Arliner Young: A Cautionary Tale,” in Black Women Scientists in the United States (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1999); Ray Spangenburg and Kit Moser, “Roger Arliner Young,” in African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention (New York: Facts on File, 2003) [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/462527_10150848170673558_563542165_o.jpg[/IMG] African American baseball team, Danbury, Connecticut Edward David Ritton, photographer ca. 1880 [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/574932_10150845067498558_1247850755_n.jpg[/IMG] Seated girl and boy holding hat Alvan Harper, photographer Tallahassee, Florida, ca. 1885-1910 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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